Server Engineer, Electronic Arts

Responsibilities:

• Develop responsive, resilient, massively scalable, and globally available web services that support millions of players
• Creatively blend security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating
• Apply and improve service deployment and troubleshooting strategies that maximize uptime
• Design and implement APIs and protocols that are consistent, formalized, and testable
• Troubleshoot and problem-solve under iteratively changing requirements
• Author and review technical design documents and API specifications detailing software requirements
• Maintain an automated test suite to validate backend service correctness

Requirements & Skills:

• You have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of job experience in a hands-on coding role
• You’ve developed, troubleshooted, optimized, deployed, shipped, and supported scalable cloud-hosted web services
• You’ve owned medium to large features from design to deployment, including live service support
• You’ve developed high-quality, testable software
• You have a desire to work with client engineers and designers to iteratively add features and improve APIs
• You’ve developed product APIs that release new updates with zero downtime strategies and tools
• You’ve developed and optimized queries and database access patterns

Bonus:

• You’ve built software with TypeScript and shipped services using Node.js
• You have experience with the following: Kubernetes (e.g. Google Kubernetes Engine), containerization, mobile game development, distributed streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka), Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Spanner, and git